Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.

In an effort to meet a dealine of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. The team are also working closely with engineers from the Intel Viiv team. and it is now expected that the next version of Viiv could be delayed to line up with the launch of the consumer version of Vista at the 2007 CES Show in Las Vegas.

Yeah, I had a good laugh about this article over the phone with one of my buds at Microsoft earlier today. I'm really not exaggerating when I say that more pure bullshit gets printed about Microsoft than any other company.

Anyway, if you guys are curious about exactly why Vista was delayed a few weeks, it's because they decided to implement a containment system for breaches in the network stack. To put it very simply, if a malicious entity passes malformed headers to the stack, it barfs, and based on the severity (and user input, if applicable) a couple of monitoring services may shut it down, to prevent disaster. It was originally slated to be released with a later update, but most of it was already written, and over the course of a week the developers involved were able to convince senior management to let them put it in.

Nah, with the exception of the Xbox 360 and keyboards/mice, hardware's never been their thing. Their buying power is really obscene, though; the size of their assets makes them eligible for an unbelievably huge loan, and if they actually took it out, the U.S. economy would reeeeally not like it.

Still, i'm sure they need something to distract themselves from the blatant display of hypocrisy that Apple are putting on in France at the moment.

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I'm actually siding with Apple on that one, because France's position on the matter reminds me all too much of the stupid crap the EU's pulling against Microsoft on behalf of all the companies that couldn't compete worth shit. If Apple wants to tie its DRMed songs to the iPod, so be it. Use another service.

It is hypocritical nevertheless, seeing as how they were one of the original plaintiffs in the MS/EU saga.

Saw a few posts speculating that Xbox devs have been recruited to rewrite 60% of the Vista Code. Thought I'd answer: Not True. It's, at best, speculation with no demonstrable basis in fact. There aren't any Xbox developers moving over to the Windows Vista team. Nope.

In fact, Vista is feature complete - meaning the code writing process is essentially over. The next phase of development focuses on security, testing and fit/finish - not writing new code. Vista is on track for business availability in November 2006 and consumer availability in January 2007.